THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
A cold tree
|
|
|
A dog barking while cold
|
|
|
A ship at sea
|
|
|
An airpline
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The poem praises Douglass as a talented and fierce fighter for the community, as Dunbar mourns the loss of an extraordinary man who elevated the civil rights cause while showing that a Black man born into slavery could have success and acceptance at the highest levels of American society and government.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is a shivering bark? Isolation, fragmentation, and alienation: African Americans are alienated and isolated now, just like they were in Douglass’s time. How does “Douglass” show modernism?
Detailed explanation-3: -It’s a poem about lack of freedom. The speaker of the poem begins by telling us that he “knows how caged bird feels, ” and then spends the resting of the poem describing how terrible its life is.